GERMAN LOVE NOTE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13335, 23 December 1943, Page 6

GERMAN LOVE NOTE

“ALL QUIET” AT HOME Southern Italy. A letter to a German soldier from the girl he left behind in Berlin tells this story. A letter that casts an amazing light on what the German home front has been thinking. . . Half a mile from Corleto, Perticara, on the crater-pocked road westward, lies a mangled Wehrmacht lorry in •vvfiich two Germans set out to lay mines to protect their retreat towards Potenza. Beside the overturned chassis in the ditch was a Paris-made letter folder. Inside was a neatly typewritten message to “Mein Lieber Kurt, dated August 1, 1943. “It is, now weeks and months that my last two letters have gone unanswered,” wrote the Berlin girl to her soldier lover. • “I had hopSd* you' might "surprise me by suddenly appearing on leave. “Are our diplomatic relations broken off? Are they to be replaced by enemy activity? “I hope you are healthy and safe and in good circumstances and between times are well off under the Greater Germany’s Korporal (Hitler). “Everything here is satisfactory. The Allied terror attacks are greater than ever. “Everything is satisfactory except my 76-year-old father’s home, which was hit and burned down. “He was knocked unconscious and taken to hospital with burns. “The Reichmarshal (Goering), whose mouth was always so full of words, is now silent. “He is called ‘Tengelmann’ (the name given to German chain system restaurants), because he has been defeated in so many towns.”